37)When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.

38)There are more chickens than people in the world.

39)It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.

40)The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

41)There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

42)The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

43)The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.

44)The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

45)The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.

46)Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

47)The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

48)Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.

49)You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

50)A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.

51)Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

52)The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

53)When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

54)Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.

55)A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded

67)Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.

68)Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.

69)According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.

70)The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.

71)If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.

72)Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.

73)Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.

74)More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.

75)Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.

76)Coca-Cola was originally green.

77)The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

78)The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

79)There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

80)TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

81)Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

82)You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

83)It is impossible to lick your elbow.

84)People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

85)It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

86)The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

87)If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

88)Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

89)111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

90)If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

91)If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.

92)If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

93)Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey

94)A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

95)A snail can sleep for three years.

96)All polar bears are left handed.

97)American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

98)Butterflies taste with their feet.

99)Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

100)In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

101)On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

102)Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

103)Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

104)The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

105)The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

106)The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

107)Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

108)Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

109)The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

110)Most lipstick contains fish scales.

111)And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

Facts are not things that seem true. Facts are true. 108 is a repeat of 73, so your list contains only 110 unique line items, hence the first statement you made about there being 111 real facts is bogus. You include things, pointed out in previous comments, that are not true, and finally, your last item is not based on any statistical analysis. You just guessed.

Where is the support for all of your facts?

I dislike strongly when people used the word "fact" and tell lies instead.

most of these "facts" are either:-downright false (plenty of evidence to support against it)-urban legends (what people may believe, but no evidence)-or common misconceptions (what most people believe, yet it is known the otherwise